League of Communists of Croatia

The League of Communists of Croatia (SKH) was a Titoist/Marxist-Leninist communist political party in Croatia that existed from 1937 to 3 November 1990, affiliated with the League of Communists of Yugoslavia. Croatia was the most industrialized part of Yugoslavia during the 1937, meaning that it had millions of laborers who were seeking representation by a leftist party. The SKH began to fracture in the late 1960s and early 1970s as it was divided between the nationalist "Croatian Spring" camp and the orthodox communist camp. Josip Broz Tito himself distanced the League of Communists from the Croatian Spring, and the SKH was purged of its liberal and reformist elements. It was therefore slow to react to the political changes of the 1980s, and it transformed into the Social Democratic Party of Croatia on 3 November 1990 after Croatia seceded from FR Yugoslavia.